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Russian scientists believe they have found a new type of bacteria in the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica. The samples obtained from the underground lake in May last year contained a bacteria, which bore no resemblance to existing types, said Sergei Bulat of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics.

Perseverance paid off for the Polar Bear canoe polo team on Sunday when they finally won the boys' Winter Canoe Polo Open Championships. They had finished third in 2010 and runners-up last year in the competition organised by the Hong Kong Canoe Union.

When you look directly over the railing of your cruise ship into the piercing black eyes of a polar bear, it suddenly doesn't matter that the cruise has no chocolate buffet or that the swimming pool is used as storage space. The bear doesn't care about chocolate buffets either; it would rather the ship moved on so it can get back to hunting ringed seal.

A sport hunter from Idaho named Jim Martell was on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic last month, tracking the largest land carnivore in North America. He bagged a bear that has made headlines across the continent. Adult male polar bears weigh up to 800kg - as much as a small car. The hunt cost Martell C$50,000 ($350,830) so he was delighted with his kill.

But you don't want to resort to the sometimes expensive option of a walk through an air-conditioned shop. What can you do? How about a relaxing - and cooling - 20 minutes in the Images of Nature gallery at No 18 Wyndham Street? In fact, looking at the pictures is likely to make you shiver.